The knowledge that for women in middle adulthood, multiple roles can tie in with well-being should help younger women who are stru...ggling with the pressures of small children and a job, and who may be tempted to abandon or severely curtail their career goals.... The woman who manages to hang onto her career may be in for some stress in her younger years when the pulls and tugs of family and career can be intense, but if she can persist, her chances for much smoother sailing in her mature years seem very good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other me...n are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit m...oney are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the c...onditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are c...hastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his e...motions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personal ... response from their infants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First you're the outraged Madison Avenu...e man who claims he's been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now you play the peevish lover stung by jealously and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control--they're not taught to please thems...elves.... Most women--it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as--well, everyone I know is!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severe...ly to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »